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In article <575.677T15...@sky.bus.com>,
   "Charlie Gibbs" <cgi...@sky.bus.com> wrote:
>In article <774jp6$l23$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com> edb_...@my-dejanews.com
>(edb_gene) writes:
>
>>That's like the old flow-control commands (XON/XOFF) where:
>>Ctrl-S was 'Stop' and Ctrl-Q was 'Qontinue' :-)
>
>Ouch.  That's as bad as the mnemonic I heard for memorizing the
>hjkl keys in vi.  H and L were easy - H is on the left so it
>moves you left, L is on the right so it moves you right.
>That leaves J and K - which is which?  Well, J stands for
>"Jump" (down), and K stands for "Klimb".
>

And all this time I thought the keys were picked because of their
relative position on the keyboard.  For instance, it was so much
easier to test if the <ctrl-Q> was in the same area as the <ctrl-S>.
One didn't have to move many muscles to do either.  The keys picked
for the applications where they used me as the data enterer,
were based on ease of data entry.  For instance, the programmer 
insisted that each entry be terminated with a carriage return,
causing me to "lose" my place on the keyboard.  I asked for the
space character to be the equivalent terminating character.  It
took a huge fight with the programmer, but I told him that the
rate of data entered would double if he made the change (that
rate of data entered was one of the customer's criteria).

/BAH

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